单词 | conceitist |
释义 | conceitistn.ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [noun] > creator or inventor craftsmana1382 feigner1382 finderc1384 finder-upc1425 engineer?a1513 finder-out1534 inventor1555 conceiver1581 conceiter1603 conceitist1628 commenter1645 ideas man1845 think-man1967 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lv. sig. R8v As a Conceitest, it [sc. Logicke] hath laid on so many colours, that the counterfeit is more various then the patterne. 2. A person who employs literary conceits.spec. with reference to the 17th-century metaphysical poets; cf. metaphysical adj. 3a. ΚΠ 1881 Bull. Essex (Mass.) Inst. 13 20 Never a masculine simplicity... In the great realms of English verse, a dandy. What the old conceitists were, mannered. 1939 T. H. Johnson Poet. Wks. Edward Taylor 16 The reader need not search afield for analogues among the verses of the seventeenth-century conceitists to explain Taylor's choice of subject. 1944 Princeton Alumni Weekly 7 July 36 (advt.) Writing poetry in the tradition of Donne and the Anglo-Catholic conceitists. 1995 J. R. Goetsch Vico's Axioms vi. 71 The French critics insisted that what the conceitists called ingenium was merely reason in a figural..mode. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1628 |
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